NOTIFICATION REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10, OF THE SECURITIES MARKETS ACT ON A CHANGE IN HOLD

NOTIFICATION REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10, OF THE SECURITIES MARKETS ACT
ON A CHANGE IN HOLDINGS


Fiskars Corporation has been informed that Virala Oy Ab has increased its holding
to more than one-tenth (1/10) of the share capital and voting rights in Fiskars
Corporation. Under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Finnish Market Securities Act, we
hereby announce following:

1.    Name of company in which holdings have been acquired

      Fiskars Oyj Abp, Business ID 0214036-5

2.    Date of change in holdings

      March 11, 2005

3.    Shareholder's name and Business Identity Code

      Virala Oy Ab, 0147485-7

4.    Proportion of voting rights and share capital:

                Number of      Proportion of      Proportion of     
                shares         share capital      voting rights     
                                                                    
 A shares       4 851 553      6.26 %             0.96 %            
 K shares       3 000 277      3.87 %             11.85 %           
                                                                    
 Total          7 851 830      10.13 %            12.81 %           

The share capital of Fiskars Corporation comprises a total of
77,510,200 shares (54,944,492 A shares and 22,565,708 K shares),
said shares entitling to a total of 506,258,652 votes.




Juha Rauhala                      Johan Landsdorff
Vice President,                   Vice President,
Corporate Finance                 Legal Counsel